Jonathan Lethem Autograph

Jonathan Allen Lethem (/ˈliːθəm/; born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel that achieved mainstream success. In 2003, he published The Fortress of Solitude, which became a New York Times Best Seller. In 2005, he received a MacArthur Fellowship. Since 2011, he has taught creative writing at Pomona College. More about Jonathan Lethem

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Current items with a signature of Jonathan Lethem

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thumbnail(Signed Copy) Jonathan Lethem / THE FERAL DETECTIVE 1st/1st HCDJ - Very Good$16.00logo
thumbnailHow We Got Insipid - Jonathan Lethem - Subterranean Press (2006) Signed$20.00logo
thumbnailJonathan Lethem - MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN - Signed 1st, 1st - Very Scarce$75.00logo
thumbnailJonathan Lethem - THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE - Signed 1st Edition, 1st Printing$30.00logo
thumbnailJONATHAN LETHEM: Dissident Gardens (SIGNED 1st edition hardcover with DJ)$12.99logo
thumbnailThe Disappointment Artist by Jonathan Lethem: New Signed$21.00logo
thumbnailThe Fortress of Solitude; Jonathan Lethem 2003 HC/DJ 1st/3rd Signed/Inscribed VG$25.00logo
Lethem was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Judith Frank Lethem, a political activist, and Richard Brown Lethem, an avant-garde painter. He was the eldest of three children. His father was Protestant (with Scottish and English ancestry) and his mother was Jewish, from a family with roots in Germany, Poland, and Russia. His brother Blake became an artist involved in the early New York hip hop scene, and his sister Mara became a photographer, writer, and translator. The family lived in a commune in the pre-gentrified Brooklyn in the northern section of the neighborhood of Gowanus (now called Boerum Hill). Lethem's fourth grade teacher at P.S. 29 in nearby Cobble Hill was future New York City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, whom he called the "perfect" teacher and to whom he dedicated his first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music. Despite the racial tensions and conflicts, he later described his bohemian childhood as "thrilling" and culturally wide-reaching. He gained an encyclopedic knowledge of the music of Bob Dylan, saw Star Wars twenty-one times during its original theatrical release, and read the complete works of the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Lethem later said Dick's work was "as formative an influence as marijuana or punk rock—as equally responsible for beautifully fucking up my life, for bending it irreversibly along a course I still travel."

His parents divorced when Lethem was young. When he was thirteen, his mother Judith died from a malignant brain tumor, an event which he has said haunted him and has strongly affected his writing. (Lethem discusses the direct relation between his mother and the Bob Dylan song "Like a Rolling Stone" in the 2003 Canadian documentary Complete Unknown.) In 2007, Lethem explained, "My books all have this giant, howling missing —language has disappeared, or someone has vanished, or memory has gone." Read even more about Jonathan Lethem at Wikipedia

Traded items with a signature of Jonathan Lethem

In total, we tracked 54 items since 01/01/2008. The chart below shows the trade volume over time.

The most expensive item with a signature of Jonathan Lethem (SIGNED (x5!) ~ The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick by Jonathan Lethem Pamela Jackson+) was sold in July 2021 for $275.00 while the cheapest item (The Feral Detective: A Novel by Jonathan Lethem (Signed Copy, Hardcover)) found a new owner for $3.00 in March 2023. The month with the most items sold (4) was January 2024 with an average selling price of $11.00 for an autographed item of Jonathan Lethem. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in July 2021 with $99.99 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $4.00 was November 2021. In average, an autographed item from Jonathan Lethem is worth $19.99.

Most recently, these items with a signature of Jonathan Lethem were sold on eBay - click here for more items.

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thumbnailA GAMBLER’S ANATOMY Jonathan Lethem (Doubleday 2016, 1st ed hc) nr FN SIGNED$9.99logo
thumbnailBrooklyn Crime Novel, Jonathan Lethem (Hardcover) SIGNED, Free Shipping, USED$10.00logo
thumbnailGun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem (1994, Hardcover) Signed $12.00logo
thumbnailJonathan Lethem - HOW WE GOT INSIPID - Signed Limited First$27.95logo
thumbnailJonathan Lethem, Brooklyn Crime Novel, Signed First Edition, Hardcover$39.00logo
thumbnailSigned 1st edition You Don’t Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem!! W/ Extra!!$10.00logo
thumbnailTHE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE by JONATHAN LETHEM (2003, ARC Pb 1st/1st) * SIGNED *$10.49logo
thumbnailTHE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE Jonathan Lethem (Doubleday 2003, 1st ed hc) FN SIGNED$9.99logo
thumbnailThe Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye by Jonathan Lethem (1996, HC) SIGNED$14.00logo
thumbnailTHE WALL OF THE SKY, THE WALL OF THE EYE Jonathan Lethem (2007, 1st hc) SIGNED$9.99logo